Jan. 24: House Public Health transcript
House Public Health Jan. 24, 2023 Rep L Johnson: Representative Pilkington isn’t here today, so we'll pass over his two bills. Representative Maddox has informed me he'd like his bill moved to the deferred list. We're going to pass over my bill on 1126. We're...
Jan. 24: House Judiciary transcript
House Judiciary Jan. 24, 2023 Rep S Berry: Members, I call the meeting to order. Committee, thank you for being here. And welcome our guests also. Miss Dalby is busy taking care of some business in another committee. She'll be back I'm hoping pretty quick. And...
Jan. 24: House Education transcript
House Education Jan. 24, 2023 Rep Evans: ..To order, and without objection, I'll be skipping around a little bit on our agenda today. We've got two bills that we're going to hear. We're going to pass over Representative Meeks today. So we will go to House Bill...
Jan. 24: Joint Budget transcript
Joint Budget Jan. 24, 2023 Sen Dismang: Going to go ahead and get started. We've got two reports, B1. BLR Staff: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Item B1 is a monthly report. There is no action required by this committee. This is regarding the activity and condition...
Jan. 24: Senate State Agencies transcript
Senate State Agencies Jan. 24, 2023 Jump to section below Rules and agenda discussion Sen B Johnson: Chair sees a quorum. Come to order in Senate State Agencies. We will begin with House Bill 1023. Representative Fortner just introduce yourself and you're...
Jan. 19: Joint Budget Personnel transcript
Joint Budget Personnel Subcommittee Jan. 19, 2023 Jump to section below Governor’s Office raises Governor’s hiring freeze Department Secretary salary raises Governor’s Office response DHS salary raises Sen Davis: Thank you, everyone, for being here today. This...
Jan. 19: Senate transcript
Senate floor Jan. 19, 2023 Jump to section below HB 1052, 1056, 1057, 1058: Appropriation bills Medicaid redetermination Sen Hester: The Senate will be called order. Are there any requests for leave at this time? Seeing none, Madam secretary, please call the...
Jan. 19: House floor transcript
House of Representatives Jan. 19, 2023 Jump to section below Motion to recall HB 1018 (bomb squad bill) back to committee HB 1023: Requires state purchased flags be made in the USA HB 1014: Allows online training for coroners and prohibits felons from serving as...
Jan. 23: Senate transcript
Senate Jan. 23, 2023 Jump to section below Amendment to SB 43 (adding co-sponsors approved) HCR 1002 Resolution on Ridge Alkonis (passed) HCR 1005 Religious Freedom Day (passed) Lt Gov Rutledge: Meeting will now be called to order. Are there any requests for...
Jan. 23: House transcript
House of Representatives Jan. 23, 2023 Jump to section below HB 1101 Reducing the required disability to obtain a disabled veterans tag HB 1145 Creating Lupus Awareness Day Referring HB 1155 back to committee HB 1137 Allowing local governments to burn vegetation HB...
Jan. 23: Joint Retirement transcript
Joint Retirement Jan. 23, 2023 Rep Warren: Chair calls this meeting to order. I see a quorum. Good morning, everyone. It's good to have everybody here for our first Retirement Committee meeting. Look forward to working with everybody. I'm Les Warren. I'm going...
Jan. 19: House Public Health transcript
House Public Health Jan. 19, 2023 Jump to section below HB 1015 Exempts Hot Springs Village from trust fund obligations (held) HB 1009 Amendment to Medicaid transportation bill (passed) HB 1145 Lupus Day (passed) HB 1082 Occupational therapy compact (passed) HB 1155...
Jan. 19: House Education transcript
House Education Jan. 19, 2023 Jump to section below HB 1017 Emergency services leave for school employees (passed) HB 1030 Foreign exchange student school acceptance (held) HB 1122 School calendar start date (passed) Rep Evans: So we will get our meeting started. It's...
Jan. 19: House Judiciary transcript
House Judiciary Jan. 19, 2023 Jump to section below HB 1098 Allowing installation of newborn safety boxes at some volunteer fire stations (passed) HB 1088 Adding people covered under threats to a juror or judicial official (failed) HB 1004 Adding full addresses to the...
Jan. 18: Senate Judiciary transcript
Senate Judiciary Jan. 18, 2023 Jump to section below Chief Justice Dan Kemp Attorney General Tim Griffin Avoid unnecessary litigation / tax dollar spend on bills Pursing Legislative Audit prosecutions Committee Rules Sen Stubblefield: All right. The Chair wants to...
Jan. 18: House Insurance and Commerce transcript
House Insurance and Commerce Jan. 18, 2023 Rep Maddox: Good morning. Let's call this meeting to order. The chair does see a quorum. So if we could, let's get this meeting started. The very first thing I would like to do is I would like to introduce and recognize our...
Jan. 19: House Transportation transcript
House Transportation Jan. 19, 2023 Jump to section below HB 1087 Increasing fines for speeding 25+ mph over limit (failed) HB 1150 Extending time to license vehicles (passed) HB 1101 Reducing disability requirement to get a disabled veterans tag (passed)...
Jan. 19: Senate State Agencies transcript
Senate State Agencies Jan. 19, 2023 Jump to section below HCR 1002 Resolution on Ridge Alkonis SB 4 Banning TikTok from state and local government use (failed) Sen B Johnson: Chair sees a quorum of the State Agencies committee. Come to order. Without...
Jan. 19: House Revenue and Tax transcript
House Revenue and Tax Jan. 19, 2023 Jump to section below HB 1032 Increases homestead property tax credit (held) Fiscal impact Holistic look at tax cuts Rep Eaves: All right. Good morning members, and good morning everyone in the audience. The first bill up on...
Jan. 19: Senate City County Local transcript
Senate City County Local Affairs Jan. 19, 2023 Jump to section below SB 43 Regulating drag performances Bill presentation Questions from Committee members Individual testimony against Family Council testimony for ACLU testimony against Individual testimony...